
It was exactly a year ago that Amnesty International hosted a Day of Solidarity and Defiance with a mass rally in Trafalgar Square in response to the Arab revolutions. The crowd, and in particular the Egyptian participants, were joyous that day as Hosni Mubarak descended from his power on the day before the event. I [...]

They deserved it – a celebration. That’s what it was at Trafalgar Square today. “Good-bye to dictatorship, hello freedom”. The people I captured through my camera finder looked joyous. The tenacity of the Egyptian people who did not compromise with Mubarak deserves to be complimented. As one speaker said at the rally which Amnesty International [...]

I joined the “Emergency Demonstration – Support the Egyptian People” that Stop the War Coalition organised today in London. Perhaps 1,000 people took part. It is funny that I only visit a place like May Fair on a protest march like this. On 8 February, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) will be calling upon [...]